EPISODE · Jan 20, 2026 · 55 MIN
E233 - Film and Cold War Industrial Power w/ Alice Lovejoy
from American Prestige · host Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison
Subscribe now to skip the ads and get all of our content. Danny and Derek welcome to the show Alice Lovejoy, professor of film and media studies at the University of Minnesota, to talk about the intersections of cinema, corporate power, and the military. They discuss how film production became entangled with military and chemical sectors; how corporate interests and state power shaped the technologies of cinema; the ways photographic film recorded and was shaped by Cold War geopolitics; and cinema as both a cultural expression and an product of industrial and geopolitical forces. Read Alice’s book Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Subscribe now to skip the ads and get all of our content. Danny and Derek welcome to the show Alice Lovejoy, professor of film and media studies at the University of Minnesota, to talk about the intersections of cinema, corporate power, and the military. They discuss how film production became entangled with military and chemical sectors; how corporate interests and state power shaped the technologies of cinema; the ways photographic film recorded and was shaped by Cold War geopolitics; and cinema as both a cultural expression and an product of industrial and geopolitical forces. Read Alice’s book Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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